ABSTRACT
Although not as well-studied as asymmetries for cognition, affective asymmetries have been receiving increasing attention in the literature (e.g., Davidson, 1983 a; see also Denneberg, 1981 for a review of relevant animal data), and most investigators would now agree that the two hemispheres of the human brain differentially contribute to certain forms of affective behavior. The specific nature of these hemispheric differences and the particular parameters of emotion which are asymmetrically organized in the cortex are not fully known.
